[Koha-devel] permission flag proposal

[Pat Eyler]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Tonnesen Steve wrote:

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> I'd like to propose a permission flag be added to the "borrowers" table.

I like this idea ... and the way Steve has laid it out.

-pate

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> My thoughts are we could have flags like:
>
> superlibrarian   (can do any intranet functions)
> circulate        (can circulate books)
> catalogue        (can add/modify bibliographic data and holdings info)
> parameters	 (can modify Koha parameter settings)
> borrowers	 (can add/modify patron information)
> permissions	 (can modify these flags)
> reserveforothers (can set reserves for any patron)
>
> borrow		 (can borrow items)
> reserveforself   (can reserve books for themselves)
>
>
> The big reason for this is that the new authentication system needs to
> determine which users have access to intranet functions and which users
> are just patrons and should have no access to intranet.  In most cases,
> probably all that is needed is a "librarian" flag, but I thought I'd make
> it possible for it to be more fine-grained.
>
> I was thinking of using a 32 bit integer for storing the flags so up to 32
> flags can be set.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Steve.
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